Today I woke up around 6:30 am had my morning ritual and got ready to meet with someone in beautiful Thousand Oaks, CA. Now my day can finally begin after that meeting. I wrote my to-list for the day (yes I'm big on short term goals). And I can write my 3 pages a day. I made an essential oil blend of: cinnamon, cedar wood and ylang-ylang. It diffidently smells like fall in here, which I love. But spring is here and Easter is this weekend. I would like to take a moment and explore how Easter makes me feel. First off, I enjoy any holiday that allow us to indulge in celebrating life. Indeed I will celebrate today for no apparent reason other than todays the day. I will outline other memories I created recently. But I also may complain, because apparently that's what writers are good at-- haha.
Yesterday, I was convinced that I needed to create a memory that would stick around. I decided to play a game of double's tennis with my family, which includes: my girlfriend and two brothers. I enjoy tennis because it's a total mind game and involves some physicality. My brother and I use to play before he got in trouble with the law. And I was thinking we should play to burn off some steam and bond. It was a blast, tennis is my old-new favorite sport. I had not seen my brother since my grandpa's 80th birthday party in Del Mar, CA. My brother is going away on a vacation for ac-couple of years and communications might be limited. It has been a source of anxiety for me to think how long his vacation will be. I even read “The Power of Now” by Ekhart Tolle. This book has helped me tremendously dealing with traumatic situations that are out of my control-- like my brother. How my brother lives his life and where he goes is out of my control. Tolle guided me to be in the “now.” If you're in the now anxieties slowly disappear. And that is what I need, to be calm and present. The past is essentially dead unless you're making amends and the future is an illusion. That is why I play tennis.
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